Far From Comfort

23. The Threat

~Juvia's PoV~

My body shook as I looked at the man in front of me. There's no way. There's no way that monster is my brother.

"Do you remember now?" He asked with a grin on his face.

"You're lying."

He chuckled. "You know it's quite a funny story. I joined Alvarez a few years after you ran away. I thought you had died. But then on a trip to Ishgar I heard rumors about two mages called Juvia and Gajeel joining Fairy Tail and I just had to go see it for myself."

"What you're saying is impossible. If you were six when I was born you should be 13 years older than me now." I defended.

He grinned at me creepily. "Not in the slightest. Spriggan- Or I guess Zeref for you, had me in a magic seal for 5 years after I joined Alvarez to enhance my magic power. So now I'm only 8 years older than you. What a coincidence am I right?"

I clenched my jaw. This can't be happening. But what I saw was so real... I felt like I knew those people...

"If I'm really your sister... Why did you want to kill me?" I asked him while tears pooled in my eyes.

"I had great plans for us in the future. I wanted you to come with me and join Alvarez but instead you insisted on searching for our pathetic parents."

"So you tried killing me because I went to look for our parents?!"

"Of course not!" He chuckled. "I wanted to kill you because you were a traitor. Just like mom and dad."

My hands started shaking uncontrollably. "Y-You m-mean..."

He nodded and laughed. "I killed them both with my own two hands after I found them. It was such a relieving experience. If you had stuck with me we could've killed them together."

I backed up as furthest away from him as possible, my back hitting the wall and the tears that were before pooling in my eyes streaming down my cheeks endlessly.

"N-No..."

"And you're next little sister. Just wait until I get out and I'll go find you. No matter where you go. I'll find you. And I will murder you just like I did to our soulless parents." A dark aura surrounded him and a creepy grin grew on his face.

I quickly bolted out of there, alarming the employees that were standing at the other side of the door.

Mom... Dad... I'm so sorry...

I ran past the cells until I reached the main corridor leading to the stairs. I made a sharp right turn and ran at full speed towards the stairs. I noticed a figure standing in the hallway but I ignored it and kept running.

I ran up the stairs and out of the council. I didn't know where I was running to but I just wanted to run. Run far away. Away from my problems and away from him.

I could feel my leg in pain as I put my weight on it when I ran, but I ignored it.

I jolted down the hill and into an empty park. I was completely breathless and decided to sit down on one of the benches

I couldn't take it anymore. Not all at once. All the pain from my past just came back to me and I couldn't handle it.

I started shaking uncontrollably. Why did I have to remember? Now of all times. If I had remembered sooner I could've saved them. I could've saved them.

"J-Juvia...?"

~Gray's PoV~

I was standing by the corridor waiting for Juvia to get out, since the guards didn't let me in after her, until I suddenly saw a figure rapidly sprint towards the stairs.